Conclusion: Persistence and Reach of Cecilia’s Legacy
摘要
The multiple possible motives for adaptation imply a great variety of works beyond the straightforward text-to-text remaking of literary or media artifacts. Various models of transtextuality allow for a broad range of responses that could be called “works” (songs, paintings, graffiti, etc.). This concluding chapter points out a middle range between the directly adaptative (book-to-book, book-to-film, etc.) and the perimetrically referential. Actual adaptations (novels, plays, screenplays, etc.) contrast with forms expressing aesthetic appreciation, revisionist fervor, etc. Tangentially inspired, non-adaptative contributions (travel books, novels, plays, etc.) confirm Cecilia’s imagistic allure and respond—as reverent homage or withering repudiation—to the original novel’s classic status, while insuring continued circulation of the Cecilia image and related mediatic corpus throughout the extended Cuban cultural sphere.